Abstract
Project planning and scheduling are essential parts of project management. While project planning and scheduling tools are already available to support traditional project management approaches, flexible project management, such as agile, extreme and hybrid project planning, are only somewhat supported by computer algorithms. To the best of our knowledge, no existing R package for project planning and scheduling can support project planning and scheduling for flexible projects. In this paper, the goal is to fill this gap; to this end, the R package mfpp for matrix-based flexible project planning/scheduling is introduced and described. This package includes a comprehensive set of tools for project managers to schedule both traditional and flexible project plans. The use of the package is illustrated through examples.
Funder
Ministry of Culture and Innovation of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund
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